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[jg007]

call me paranoid -

Spybot
Adaware
Zonealarm
Windows Defender ( as ocasional scan )
Windows live safety scanner ( ocasionally )
Router with SPI and firewall
Finjan secure browsing IE add on
Secunia Software inspector

and .. various other online scans on an occasional basis ( pc pitstop etc )

[STFM]

Hardware firewall + firefox + HijackThis. That is all.

[gregor]

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Hardware firewall + firefox + HijackThis. That is all.
[/b]

wow you are almost wide open. Hardware firewall isn't really any good.

[Icewolf]

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Hardware firewall + firefox + HijackThis. That is all.[/b]

wow you are almost wide open. Hardware firewall isn't really any good.[/b][/quote]Properly configurated it's more effective than ANY software.

[STFM]

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Hardware firewall + firefox + HijackThis. That is all.
[/b]

wow you are almost wide open. Hardware firewall isn't really any good.
[/b][/quote]

Funny, good enough for all the banks I contract for

[gregor]

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(STFM @ Aug 30 2007, 01:04 AM) [snapback]307660[/snapback]

Hardware firewall + firefox + HijackThis. That is all.
[/b]

wow you are almost wide open. Hardware firewall isn't really any good.
[/b][/quote]

Funny, good enough for all the banks I contract for
[/b][/quote]


what good is firewall if you get a worm? i once got it and it kept on mutliplying itself. as soon as i did a virus scan files were found and removed, but in the mean time new were made. finnally i got it off when i found a programme on the net.

another time i seen firewall alone to fail was at work. with some sophicsticated firewalls and antivirus programes, some malware attached to my computer (still have no idea how) and started to pop up nasty pr0n sites. they cleaned it afterwards, by locating the source and deleting it.

so i think one still needs virus protection programme.

especially if you are sharing

[STFM]

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what good is firewall if you get a worm? i once got it and it kept on mutliplying itself. as soon as i did a virus scan files were found and removed, but in the mean time new were made. finnally i got it off when i found a programme on the net.

another time i seen firewall alone to fail was at work. with some sophicsticated firewalls and antivirus programes, some malware attached to my computer (still have no idea how) and started to pop up nasty pr0n sites. they cleaned it afterwards, by locating the source and deleting it.

so i think one still needs virus protection programme.

especially if you are sharing
[/b]

You get a worm for one of two reasons.
1. Someone finds a way into your system and plants the worm
2. A user on the inside runs software that is infected

Hardware firewalls stop number 1, I stop number 2 by not running things I dont trust. My email is scanned by my ISP too.
If someone really wanted to hack my computer Im sure they could. I dont have a static IP and only have ports 80, 443 and a few other mapped ports open. I keep my windows security updates current and use firefox. I use a dedicated VM server for all external things like chat clients so if it does get infected, I just delete it and start clean

Since I started using the hardware firewall and firefox, I havent had any spyware whereas before it was ridiculous! I probably should run an antivirus though.

[_r.u.s.s.]

and with hijack this he can see all his ports/programs used by them

[Maxor127]

Antivir, Spybot S&D, and Spywareblaster. Occasionally, I'll run a-squared. I used to use AVG but didn't like the new version. And I used to use Ad-aware, but it stopped working for some reason so I uninstalled it since I never really used it anymore.

[jg007]

the dos command ' netstat -b -v -a ' is good for that also although i'm not too sure how well it works for those sneaky trojan's , it also only shows the ip's